City installs new solar-powered receptacles with Wi-Fi technology that signals when they're full.
Much of the trash on Newbury Street will no longer be blowing in the wind. Or overflowing from the barrels. Or considered food for animals at night. The Newbury Street League teamed up with the city to purchase and install six Big Belly trash receptacles, strategically placed on the corners of cross streets, from Exeter Street to Massachusetts Avenue. "The beauty is in the simplicity," said Tim McCarthy, principal of the commissioner for the Boston Public Works department. "They're nothing more than a compactor you'd have in your own kitchen." Kind of. About the size of a mailbox, the compactors use solar panels to stay charged. Every 30 seconds an infrared light shoots out of the top of the barrel to detect trash, and presses it down if…
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